Space, Place, and Mapping ILA387 Spring 2016 Main Menu Anales de Tlatelolco (Anonymous, 1540-1560) Historia tolteca-chichimeca (Anales de Cuauhtinchan. Anonymous, 1550-1560) Anales de Cuauhtitlán (Anonymous, c. 1570) Codex Aubin (Anonymous, c. 1576) Anales de Tecamachalco (Anonymous, c. 1590) Clendinnen, I: “‘Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty’: Cortés and the Conquest of México" Secondary Source Lockhart, J: The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries Secondary Source Lockhart, J.: We People Here. Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico Secondary Source McDonough, K.: The Learned Ones. Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico Secondary Source McDonough, K.: “‘Love’ Lost: Class Struggle among Indigenous Nobles and Commoners of Seventeenth-Century Tlaxcala” Secondary Source Megged, A. & Wood, S.: Mesoamerican Memory. Enduring Systems of Remembrance Secondary Source Restall, M.: “The New Conquest History” in History Compass 10:12 Secondary Source Schroeder, S. (Ed): The Conquest All Over Again. Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism Secondary Source Townsend, C.: Here in This year. Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley Secondary Source Wood, S.: Transcending Conquest. Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico Secondary Source

Space, Place, and Mapping

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Course Description
In this interdisciplinary graduate seminar we will analyze the production and interaction of visual signs (written, painted, and cartographic) issuing from distinct cultures in the ever-changing temporal, social, and geographic space of colonial Latin America. Drawing from Michel de Certeau's essay "Walking in the City" we will address how spaces are represented and practiced in everyday life, and, with a nod to Henri LeFebvre's influential "The Production of Space," how the built environment is inflected by such representations and practices. We will also identify the discourses and analyze the tensions that arise when multiple cultures attempt to claim and order physical realms and the imaginary. With an emphasis on the oftentimes-unequal encounters between Europeans, indigenous peoples, and Africans we will study how the cultural texts in question were both reflective and constitutive of the colonial experience. This course allows students to acquire and develop a rigorous theoretical framework and historical background for research related to colonial cultures in contact, particularly in the areas of: 1) the construction of identity in relation to interpretations and representations of self and others; 2) written and visual assertions of domination, subordination, negotiation, and appropriation; and 3) the circulation and impact of these texts in their own time, as well as the present day.
 

Contents of this path:

  1. Assigned Reading Annotated Bibliography
  2. Links to Digital (re)Sources
  3. Christian: El espacio liso de las huacas
  4. Proyecto de la lista individual
  5. How to Make a Tag
  6. Tania: Conquest Histories in 16th-century Nahua annals
  7. Ana - La construcción de Panamá colonial: la materialidad de la ciudad desde la arqueología y la historia.
  8. María Victoria: Situating Book History in Colonial Spanish America
  9. Daisy: The Modern Garifuna; A new culture formed on the Internet
  10. Jaime Sáenz. Los lugares imaginados y habitados en La Paz

Contents of this tag:

  1. Jaime Sáenz. Los lugares imaginados y habitados en La Paz